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| author | Hao Ge <[email protected]> | 2025-06-19 18:31:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <[email protected]> | 2025-06-25 22:55:03 +0000 |
| commit | f5769359c5b241978e6933672bb78b3adc36aa18 (patch) | |
| tree | fd3c2b701d98daa80a236ae2b25b89302350a833 /lib/alloc_tag.c | |
| parent | lib/group_cpus: fix NULL pointer dereference from group_cpus_evenly() (diff) | |
| download | kernel-f5769359c5b241978e6933672bb78b3adc36aa18.tar.gz kernel-f5769359c5b241978e6933672bb78b3adc36aa18.zip | |
mm/alloc_tag: fix the kmemleak false positive issue in the allocation of the percpu variable tag->counters
When loading a module, as long as the module has memory allocation
operations, kmemleak produces a false positive report that resembles the
following:
unreferenced object (percpu) 0x7dfd232a1650 (size 16):
comm "modprobe", pid 1301, jiffies 4294940249
hex dump (first 16 bytes on cpu 2):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 0):
kmemleak_alloc_percpu+0xb4/0xd0
pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x700/0x1098
load_module+0xd4/0x348
codetag_module_init+0x20c/0x450
codetag_load_module+0x70/0xb8
load_module+0xef8/0x1608
init_module_from_file+0xec/0x158
idempotent_init_module+0x354/0x608
__arm64_sys_finit_module+0xbc/0x150
invoke_syscall+0xd4/0x258
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb4/0x240
do_el0_svc+0x48/0x68
el0_svc+0x40/0xf8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x10c/0x138
el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
This is because the module can only indirectly reference
alloc_tag_counters through the alloc_tag section, which misleads kmemleak.
However, we don't have a kmemleak ignore interface for percpu allocations
yet. So let's create one and invoke it for tag->counters.
[[email protected]: fix build error when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK=n, s/igonore/ignore/]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 12ca42c23775 ("alloc_tag: allocate percpu counters for module tags dynamically")
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]> [lib/alloc_tag.c]
Cc: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/alloc_tag.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/alloc_tag.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/alloc_tag.c b/lib/alloc_tag.c index d48b80f3f007..3a74d63a959e 100644 --- a/lib/alloc_tag.c +++ b/lib/alloc_tag.c @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/seq_buf.h> #include <linux/seq_file.h> #include <linux/vmalloc.h> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h> #define ALLOCINFO_FILE_NAME "allocinfo" #define MODULE_ALLOC_TAG_VMAP_SIZE (100000UL * sizeof(struct alloc_tag)) @@ -632,8 +633,13 @@ static int load_module(struct module *mod, struct codetag *start, struct codetag mod->name); return -ENOMEM; } - } + /* + * Avoid a kmemleak false positive. The pointer to the counters is stored + * in the alloc_tag section of the module and cannot be directly accessed. + */ + kmemleak_ignore_percpu(tag->counters); + } return 0; } |
